half shaft replacment

[johnr]

You put the t-case in neutral or the transmission in neutral?

I had put the t-case in neutral. it seems that once it did not register the half shaft it would not let it re-engage.
anyhow got everything up and running again. the guy at the shop just had a bigger slide hammer than me. he used a die grinder and a cut off disc to cut a hole in the stub shaft so he could get the hook of his "frame starighening" slide hammer hooked on the inside getting a more direct straight pull on the shaft. the next thing was to hook 2 bungee cords to the shaft. this he told me was to keep tension on the stub shaft so after he hit it it would kind of set up a rocking motion until the ring clip finally collapsed and come out. he did say it took about 5 minutes of hammering before it came out. once the shaft was reinstalled the t-case connected up with no problem.

[pjmjr508]

glad to hear it worked out.